Feature Article
14 May 2025
Liggins Institute PhD graduate Peg Lockyer hated skirts, loved sport and thrived in leadership roles. Her research focused on how school-aged children can get active and be leaders too.
Sustainable impact
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15 May 2025
Doctoral candidate Marvin Schuster explores experiences of Pasifika caregivers raising children with Autism Spectrum Disorder.
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15 May 2025
University of Auckland's Manaaki scholars from Sāmoa met with the Sāmoa Public Service Commision and Education New Zealand, the sponsoring bodies enabling their higher education.
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14 May 2025
What if ocean waves could power our seafood farms? One engineering graduate is working on the answer.
Arts and culture
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14 May 2025
Leah Kampkes (Ngāti Manu, Ngāpuhi) has created a card game that helps inform Tangata Tiriti on Māori culture, the Treaty of Waitangi, and pressing issues – in a safe and informed way.
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13 May 2025
Well-known New Zealand food writer Julie Biuso has added a dash of extra creativity to her repertoire. She will graduate with a Master of Creative Writing in the May ceremony.
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13 May 2025
Taiarn Tavui crossed the stage to receive her Arts degree, grateful for her mother’s unwavering support—and for finding her Pacific home.
Business and economy
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13 May 2025
Farzana Adeel’s PhD research uncovered the challenges that skilled migrant entrepreneurs face in New Zealand, and looks at what needs to improve to keep them here.
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13 May 2025
Dr Sam Mackay's surreal experience in Afghanistan inspired research that uncovers the hidden toll of expat life in conflict zones.
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13 May 2025
University of Auckland graduate Maselina Tufuga drew on her skills from Waka Ama to earn a Postgraduate Diploma in Business.
Education and society
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15 May 2025
Helping Pacific women and children escape domestic violence and supporting them to be safe is a strong motivator for University of Auckland graduate Mary Lale.
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15 May 2025
Despite the dire situation for a million stateless Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar, forced to live in vast refugee camps in Bangladesh, life continues and people adapt, a visiting scholar discovered.
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14 May 2025
In a confronting research thesis, Dr Ash Gillon prompts people to think and talk about fat bodies differently, through the lens of Hine-nui-te-pō.
Environment
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2 May 2025
Oceans are heating faster across two latitudinal bands, according to research led by a University of Auckland climate scientist.
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1 May 2025
Volcanoes erupting underwater have a distinctive effect on the climate, according to international research led by University of Auckland and Tongan scientists.
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9 April 2025
The transition to electric vehicles won't reduce carbon emissions unless countries clean up their electricity grids.
Health and medicine
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15 May 2025
Science graduate and New Zealand cricketer Bree Illing caps off a great period of achievement in sport and academia.
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14 May 2025
A senior New Zealand midwife is waiting for news on funding the next stage of her groundbreaking research into treating new mothers with anaemia.
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13 May 2025
The first national mental health survey in Tokelau – part of Pacific-wide study led by Professor Sir Collin Tukuitonga and Professor Jude McCool – wrapped up on 8 May.
Politics and law
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16 May 2025
A love of rugby brought a ten-year-old Nathan Pinder to refereeing, a passion that keeps the law and engineering graduate grounded.
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16 May 2025
From music gigs to overseas travel, Sione Roberts made the most of university life, but it was his focus on Māori and Pacific legal perspectives that gave him a deeper purpose.
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15 May 2025
Despite the dire situation for a million stateless Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar, forced to live in vast refugee camps in Bangladesh, life continues and people adapt, a visiting scholar discovered.
Science and technology
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14 May 2025
Antarctic rocks hold clues to an extinction event 183 million years ago.
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14 May 2025
What if ocean waves could power our seafood farms? One engineering graduate is working on the answer.
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14 May 2025
Imagine if you could touch things in a virtual world – really experience the feel of them? PhD graduate Moritz Messerschmidt is collaborating internationally to make that happen.
University news
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13 May 2025
The University and the Cawthron Institute signed an agreement for a Joint Graduate School, making formal an existing successful partnership.
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9 May 2025
Hiwa's basketball courts received New Zealand's most decorated Olympian recently, when Dame Lisa Carrington came to deliver an announcement.
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7 May 2025
Two leading University academics have been appointed to the newly formed Prime Minister's Science and Technology Advisory Council.
The Challenge
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11 April 2025
Dr Tom Shand details the extraordinary forces at work behind giant waves that cross the Pacific and wreak havoc on distant shorelines.
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10 April 2025
The University celebrated the work and impact of leading researchers at Hīkina kia Tutuki, Rise to the Challenge: Researchers with Global Impact 2025.
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25 March 2025
Researchers from the Auckland Bioengineering Institute blend art with science to explore and understand the mysteries of human and animal physiology.
